sulotas: <ounos> I would still say that this is for Saturday or Sunday puzzle; because the chessgames.com visitors would see the name Svidler for White and wouldn't think that things should be that easy for Black and check many other possibilities here. Sometimes, the 'names' are the trickiest part.

mack: How many games can you name in which one side finishes with three knights on the board? I can't think of another. In fact, I can't name that many games in which one side had three knights at any point -- there was one in the BBC's Master Game series, but I can't remember the players off the top of my head.

Albertan: I have analyzed this game in great detail using Chessbase Megabase 2009,the Chessbase online database,and the World's strongest chess program, Deep Rybka 3 and posted the analysis to my blog using the program Chess Viewer Deluxe. I hope you drop by and play through this analysis, which is on the bottom of the first page of my blog.:

HeMateMe: Nice fighting chess, peter the Great (5 times champion of russia) and Malakhov. I wonder if Svidler was so busy calculating his terrific attack, he overlooked the under promo motif (not to be confused with the Rolling Stones' "Undercover West Coast Promo Man").

sheaf: <mack> more interesting trivia would be how many games do you know in which white moved all its pieces except the pawn on b2 and black didn't move rook on a8 knight on b8 and the pawn on f7 at all. yet white lost the game !!..

Eyal: <- V.M.: Peter surprised me already in the opening: in the well known position he played Qf3 instead of traditional gf3 in move 9. The white pieces had a perspective position, but at one point Peter started to play let's say too “beautifully”.

- P.S.: In general everything was like Vladimir said. My opponent is a great specialist in Slavic defense. Therefore, I had no illusions to have any opportunity to get an advantage in the traditional variations. That is why I played this move. In fact it seemed that I had an interesting game. The truth is that I made a standard mistake: I should have played faster. If you leave 20 minutes for 20 moves at the end, you risk to blunder something in this decisive position.

It seemed that I had a million of perspective opportunities, but I did not hurry. At some point I was tossing a coin what to chose. One thing was clear for me: if I make a wrong step, I will have serious problems. I seemed to have a strong initiative, but again, it is difficult to make a decision being in a time trouble. In general, I came to a point where I should do my best to “get out of here”. In the possible endgame I would not be a favorite at all. But what I made is even worse: I lost by force.
The good thing is we had a game when a pawn was converted to a knight. (Peter smiles sadly). It is not bad.>

Thrajin: <But what, I think, makes this game unique is that black never moved his queen-side knight and rook>

That reminds me of the boxing match in which Vladimir Klitschko scored a round 2 knockout of Ray Austin. Klitschko never used his right hand even once in the fight. Video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_s...

Black is threatening, a. o., to ♕ with check in 'f1', then white check, check, check, <underpromotes to ♘> with check, check and checkmate.
By the way, this same scheme with successive checks was showed many times by Arab and Persian composers since at least the 8th Century (therefore a thousand years before Stamma!) - but without the underpromotion idea, a feature of the new Chess ...
The simplest motivation for the underpromotion is the <need for an immediate check>, then the ♘ preceded the other pieces... Soundly motivated underpromotion to ♗ or ♖ were showed only around a hundred years after Stamma

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